Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 65 Grottoes
The situation in the Central Plains was turbulent, and the Longyou Road also had slight waves.

After marching for seven days, the army arrived at Yanchi Salt Fields, where they met with the caravans that had set out before.

After Yu Chixin arrived in Yanchi, he immediately sent an army to Sanwei Mountain to read King Jianning's policies to the refugees on the mountain.

Incorporate ordinary refugees into the second battalion of the Moli Army, and arrange for those refugees who are thin or unwilling to join the army to work in the salt field.

"It's too inefficient for you to cook salt like this. It's the right way to operate when salt crystals are precipitated." After Cui Ruoyun saw the salt field, she couldn't bear the itching of her hands and soaked in the salt field for three days.

Three days later, Cui Ruoyun proposed a complete set of improvement plans in a series of processes from filtering to making brine to boiling and drying salt.

With the help of several merchant players, only some simple mechanical tools were made.

Now, the working efficiency of the entire saltworks has been greatly improved, and a large amount of snow-white refined salt has been produced at once.

Salt Ding Ma Wu was surprised to find that since the female official came to the saltworks, their work intensity has decreased, but the salt produced is more and better.

Ma Wu felt like he was dreaming. Since the arrival of King Jianning's troops, the Yanding people have lived a better life than they could have dreamed of.

As long as he works four hours a day, he can eat and drink enough and get paid.

After the young official named Jiang Lun took office as the head of the saltworks, he first asked Cui Ruoyun to improve the salt-making process, and then raised the salaries of salt workers like Ma Wu.

Now Ma Wu can eat and drink enough every day, and can still get a weekly salary. Mr. Jiang has read out the policy a long time ago. Those who are willing to be salt can stay, and those who are not willing to be salt can also go to Guazhou to grant land .

Originally, all the salt workers discussed to leave the saltworks, but after working for a week, everyone didn't want to leave.

The salt farm now only needs to work eight hours a day, eat and drink like the master, and can eat enough every day.

Yan Ding has not been restricted in his personal freedom. If he wants to quit, he can leave at any time.

The newly-appointed director Jiang Lun has also formulated a series of policies, not only rewarding Yan Ding with money, but also promoting them for good performance at work.

Now Ma Wu is more active. With his excellent performance, he is now the squad leader of the salt cooking workshop, and he has more than a dozen salts under his command.

Ma Wu's weekly salary has also increased a bit. His greatest wish now is that His Royal Highness King Jianning can enter Shazhou, so that the people of Shazhou can live a better life.

According to Mr. Jiang, they are all subordinates of His Highness King Jianning, and His Highness took over the entire Longyou Dao under the emperor's order.

The important affairs of the imperial court are too far away from the small people like Ma Wu, but the life now is really infinitely better than before.

Ma Wu bought a woolen sweater at the big market outside the salt field with the money he saved.

This dress is really comfortable, it feels smooth and soft to the touch, and it is very warm when worn.

Yu Chixin didn't expect that King Jianning's banner was surprisingly easy to use.

After playing the banner of King Jianning, those ordinary people who hid on Sanwei Mountain descended one after another.

The refugees flocked to the saltworks, and even many real bandits disbanded where they were, and went down the mountain to become ordinary people.

The terrain of Sanwei Mountain is dangerous, and there is no place for farming on the mountain.

But Sanwei Mountain is so big, and the caravans of the government and army dare not snatch it, and the barbarian merchants in the Western Regions all detour. There are still so many bandits on the mountain, and many bandits are starving every day.

Originally, I went to the mountains to become a bandit because I didn't have enough to eat, but I didn't expect to be a bandit and still not have enough to eat.

Now I heard that the king of Jianning came from Yanchi, he can serve as a soldier to eat, or go to work in the salt field to eat, and he can get a weekly salary.

Those bandits who were starving by drinking the northwest wind on the mountain went down the mountain one after another to seek refuge.

Yu Chixin built several new camps overnight, and then resettled these refugees.

Yu Chixin selected [-] strong men from them, and incorporated them into the reserve army.

Another part of the refugees also made salt, and continued to cook salt by the side of the salt pond.

In the end, some who were unwilling to serve as soldiers and salt workers were sent to Guazhou to be granted land.

After assisting Yu Chixin to resettle the refugees, Cui Tao set off from the salt field to Shazhou City.

"Sister, it's good for you to stay in the saltworks. You can get rewards after the task is completed." Cui Tao is still trying hard to persuade Cui Ruoyun to stay in the saltworks.

Cui Ruoyun was unmoved, seeing her sister's resolute attitude, Cui Tao didn't dare to persuade her anymore.

In addition to the siblings, they also hired Zhang Shun, a refugee who was familiar with the situation in Shazhou, as a guide, pretending to be a caravan guy.

Cui Tao found three more players in the camp and went to Shazhou City with him.

Li Daoyuan is a landscape party. He came to Shazhou to see the scene of Dunhuang in the Tang Dynasty.

Now that the army was staying in Yanchi, Li Daoyuan couldn't be idle. When he heard that Cui Tao was recruiting his companions to go to Shazhou, he immediately signed up.

In addition to Li Daoyuan, Cui Tao accepted Yu Chixin's task and went to Shazhou to inquire about Doulu Army's intelligence.

The other player is Sun Jianguo. He has accumulated a few business contacts in Guazhou, and he plans to sneak into Shazhou to visit some Shazhou businessmen and let them come to the big market outside Yanchi to do business.

With Cui Tao and his brother, plus the native guide, this is the standard configuration for a small caravan.

After bypassing Sanwei Mountain, Li Daoyuan put down the binoculars and said, "The Dunhuang Grottoes are ahead!"

Everyone raised their heads and saw rows of houses nested into the mountain, and there were several caves, large and small, on the cliff. The artificially dug caves stretched for miles, and the outside of the caves were painted with bright colors.

Sun Jianguo said with emotion: "I didn't expect the Dunhuang Grottoes in the Tang Dynasty to have such a scale."

Li Daoyuan said: "The Dunhuang Grottoes have been built since the pre-Qin Dynasty. After the construction of the Northern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang Dynasties, they have such a scale."

"Former Qin?"

Cui Tao added: "It is the former Qin Dynasty who threw the whip to cut off Emperor Fu Jian."

Sun Jianguo sighed and said, "Oh, oh, are those houses embedded in the mountain temples? I think the incense is quite prosperous?"

Li Daoyuan nodded and said, "Buddhism flourished in Dunhuang, and the wave of excavating caves to build Buddha statues lasted until the end of Tang Dynasty. The temple incense here is also very prosperous."

Qin Chuan looked at the Buddhist temple, then looked at Sanwei Mountain behind him and asked, "This place is so close to Sanwei Mountain, isn't the monk afraid of bandits? Or are these bandits not robbing monks?"

Li Daoyuan said with a smile: "You think the monks at this time are the same as the later generations. Buddhist temples in Dunhuang are all raising monks and soldiers. Those monks and soldiers who eat food every day are much stronger than the hungry bandits on Sanwei Mountain. "

"It is said that there are thousands of monks and soldiers in the temples on this side of the grotto. Not to mention bandits, even the officers and soldiers dare not mess with these monks."

(End of this chapter)